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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
5
F. L. Breeden of I. C. C. traveled to Ames on Monday and Tuesday. He returned from Chariton Iowa where he serves as manager of the electric light plant.
Charles Hill Randall a well known Ames resident died Sunday morning at 63. He helped build and served as janitor at St. Cecilia Catholic church and was devoted to its pastor. He leaves a wife and small son and funds were provided for medical care and burial.
A fragment notes that tensions rise as the Indians, angered by skepticism from markets, move to retaliate against pale faces, signaling conflict and aggression in the encounter.
Death of two year old Charley Lockwood Jr occurs in Herndon after a short illness cholera infantum. Burial is in Herndon with a Sunday funeral. Also longtime Milford farmer Admond Erickson dies after months of illness. services were held at Roland conducted by Rev. J. N. Sandven.
Harry Dawson Jackson died at his home Tuesday night after pneumonia and a lung operation failed to heal. He was a student in Electrical Engineering at the ee and would have graduated next June. Born December 12, 1886 in Rose Hill Iowa, he lived here three years with his mother Mrs P K Jackson. Funeral Friday at ten from the family residence conducted by Rev J T Houser. interment in City Cemetery. Barracuda Sunday school and Philathea class members will attend.
W. A. Perry advertises overweight school tablets at 5 cents and a few pairs of school shoes cheap. Caniel Bros. & Herman promote durable, dry retaining footwear with long term value, priced no higher than inferior grades.
Hal Reid drama The Cow Puncher to be staged at the Armory Opera House on Tuesday Sept 7 under W F Mann direction. A twenty member cast brings new plot features climaxes and innovations with impressive scenery and electrical effects.
Evening services at the park will be discontinued after the summer. Pastors will reunite the flocks next Sunday at usual places of worship, ending the vacation period. From now until next July the ministers begin a vigorous campaign.
Rev Mr Minchin to celebrate an anniversary at the Congregational Church next Sunday with Sunday school at 945 am, sermon communion and reception of members at 11 am, Y P S C E at 630 pm, and a lecture on John Calvin at 730 pm marking his 400th birth anniversary. All new residents students and visitors are invited.
Sunday school at 10:00. Sermon at 11:00 by Rev. RE. W. Curtis of Des Moines. Y. P. S. C. E. at 6:30. Temperance at 7:30. Special invitation to the W. C. T. U.
Sunday School at 9 45 A M led by J E Arnold Supt Preaching at 11 00 A M by the pastor Endeavor Society meets at 6 30 P M Evening services at 7 30 with the sermon The Favored of God All are welcome
The church announces Sunday school at 9 45 a m led by F M Cupps followed by a 10 30 a m veterans service. Epworth League meets at 6 30 p m with the topic Multiplication by Division. Evening sermon at 7 30 p m titled The Greatest Book and greetings to students. A home like welcome from a home like church.
Dr. O. H. Cessna chaplain leads first chapel of fall term as President Storms speaks. Service gathers faculty and students for a general convocation on Sunday at 10 45.
Walter I. Fowle minister leads a morning Bible study at 9 45 and a sermon at 11 00 on The Duty of the Church to the Man Who Wants to do Right. Junior Union at 3 00 B Y P U at 6 30 and an evening gospel service at 7 30.
Sunday service at Smiths hall begins 10 45 with the subject Man. The meeting outlines healing and spiritual study in the Christian Science tradition.
Bloomington Church lies three miles northeast of Ames with a Sunday school scheduled at 2 30 P M on an upcoming Sunday.
A preaching service begins at 3:00 PM led by Rev J T Houser with a cordial invitation to all to attend and support the work. Last Sunday's services were described as a great success.
Sunday is Veterans Day at the Methodist church with special provisions for longtime church workers. Sunday school at the usual hour includes an old time love feast at 10 30 led by W H Duzer and a morning service with scripture by Miss Clara Shinkle and a program featuring music and a symposium on Service Its Value Its Joys and Rewards led by Supt F E King Miss May Stoddard and Rev A M Shea. The Epworth League organized the service and asks broad participation. Breezy The Cow Puncher to be seen at the Armory Opera House next Tuesday evening starring Hal Reid praised as a breezy western drama with love intrigue and adventure. It promises lively action and elaborate costumes and is said to be among the season’s best productions at popular prices.
District Superintendent Ilgin Fritz led the last quarterly conference of the Ames church Saturday evening. Officials praised the church's finances. The board voted confidence and appreciation for Rev. Andrew M. Shea and recommended his return to Ames for a seventh year, to be presented to the bishop by a special committee.
In Adel Mrs Minnie Douglas seeks action to recinct a local church dismissal tied to playing cards. The Mitchellville Index and Monroe Mirror urge censure of Colfax Epworth League Assembly for hiring Mrs Carrie Nation to lecture. Sensational prospects loom at the Ames conference week after next.
Mr and Mrs Dc F Kooser celebrate the birth of a son on Monday morning in August. The Koosers joke about naming the child Bill Taft to keep a namesake tradition with their existing son Teddy Roosevelt Kooser.
J. E. Arnolds and his son visited the Des Moines fair on Monday, taking in the exhibits and events with curiosity and interest.
One and a half million acres of farming and grazing land will be opened for settlement in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations October 4 to 23. Registration to be made at Aberdeen and Pierre. Fast daily trains via direct lines to Pierre and Aberdeen via the Chicago & Northwestern Ry. Pamphlets with rates and how to secure a 160 acre government homestead available from any ticket agent. The North Western Line. 522-31.
W A Perry offers grand introduction sale on September 4 1909 with chocolates at 20 cents per pound and all other candy at 10 cents per pound to inaugurate a new Candy Department.
Nevada begins to recover from last week’s electric light fire with the plant expected to resume operation today. The Representative and the Journal report significant power losses yet have still published nearly on schedule.
Herman urges shoppers to choose from a good line of low shoes as Daniel Bros promotes very low prices. Ward Jones returns to Ames after a summer at Allison Iowa to resume work in the mathematics department at the college.
George A. Clark has spent the past week visiting his father M. J. Clark and plans to return to Grinnell to begin his senior class. He edits the college paper Scarlet and Black and intends to pursue journalism. He asks whether you have promised to take a preacher or two.
Hal Reid's The Cowpuncher presented under W. F. Mann at the Armory Opera House features a romance between a young eastern girl and a cow puncher. The play boasts deep plot, witty comedy, lavish scenic and electric effects, and a twenty-strong company of skilled performers.
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